"Attacking the homeless" is probably a lamestream evening news sound bite.
The USA used to have facilities where those who couldn't take care of themselves were taken care of. That also served to protect everyone else. The facility nearest to me when I was growing up was in Camarillo, CA. The grounds were absolutely beautiful and very well maintained.
At some point our elected idiots decided it would be more compassionate to let those who were institutionalized because they couldn't function in society live out there with everyone else. The result was a huge increase in homelessness and crime.
It would be a good thing to reestablish shelter and treatment for those who need it, especially for the safety of everyone else.
100% agree as to how it happened, the process is the exact same here too. And the solutions.
My point in the above is that the focus should be on reestablishing shelters- with better rules to make them safe, and secure mental health facilities with laws to match that allow people who are a danger to themselves and others to be locked up permanently if they persistently refuse to stay on their meds. We've had quite a few murders in Canada due to this problem and it's the dangerous side of the homeless problem.
Our RCMP spend more time on mentally ill homeless issues than other types of crime here in Canada. I saw them dealing with one yesterday while I got my groceries. It is a waste of our tax dollars when those same funds could do a better job funding asylums and treatment facilities. We do have social housing but the demand would be less if the drug and alcohol treatments were mandatory and jails given to those who refuse.
As well I think that making more treatment spaces available for live in and walk in alcohol and drug treatment plus better support for mentally ill who are trying to take their meds, and be productive.
Then there is the problem of the working poor who are living in cars. And the retired poor who are also living in cars or on the streets. There is a need for low income housing for what the Victorian age used to call "the deserving poor" and it should have better rules and enforcement so as not to become cess pools of crime.
I remember the plight of Mary Hugs Brown, from RF who lived from campsite to campsite most of the year. She suffered at the hands of her abusive son and his wife during the year she spent living with them, she went back to camping out of her car in various national parks around Arizona. And another who did spend time on the streets till she got into some special housing. In neither case the churches around them gave any support that I know of.
My point there is that shooing them out to move on to other areas- to be somewhere else's problem just shifts responsibility to other cities.
And then we get to the same issue in Canada which is veterans who struggle with PTSD, drugs and alcohol who also form a good part of the homeless. Our solution is to murder them via MAID the assisted suicide option instead of increasing supports.
Thankfully you aren't there yet. But when people are viewed as public nuisances and shoved aside for other areas, other people to deal with, it doesn't take long for the same people on the left who closed the mental asylums, emptied them out to fend for themselves, to decide that the best solution is a final solution.
You have a few short years in the States under the Republicans- whether Vance gets elected after Trump or not, the clock is ticking, and the left will be looking at assisted suicide as a money saving alternative to actually treating people with compassion.
There is an opportunity to ensure that vets, working poor, aged and mentally ill parts of the homeless problem have supports they can access. Some will always choose to live outside the rules- and for them I have no problem seeing them in mental asylums and jails.
ing the Lord's hand would be in the midst of all this, for His sovereign will be done.
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